Eligibility criteria

You will need to be able to demonstrate that you meet the requirements of the NHS Fit and Proper Person Test, and that you have no substantial conflicts of interests that would interfere with your ability to be independent and offer an impartial perspective.

The Chair of South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust will be appointed on terms designed to reflect the significance and responsibility of the role.

Qualification for appointment as a non-executive director.

A person may be appointed as a non-executive director only if

• he / she is a member of a Public Constituency.  The Public Constituencies are:

• • Barnsley (the area covered by Barnsley Council),
  • Calderdale (the area covered by Calderdale Council),
  • Kirklees (the area covered by Kirklees Council)
  • Wakefield (the area covered by Wakefield Council)
  • Rest of Yorkshire, the Humber, Cumbria, Durham, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire (covering all local authorities within these counties).

• where any of the Foundation Trust’s hospitals includes a medical or dental school provided by a university, he / she exercises functions for the purposes of that university, and
• he / she is not disqualified by virtue of below.

The following may not become or continue as a member of the Trust Board:

• a person who has been adjudged bankrupt or whose estate has been sequestrated and (in either case) has not been discharged;
• a person who has made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, his creditors and has not been discharged in respect of it;
• a person who within the preceding five years has been convicted in the British Isles of any offence if a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of not less than three months (without the option of a fine) was imposed on him.

Further provisions as to the circumstances in which an individual may not become or continue as a member of the Trust Board are set out below.

A person may not become or continue as a Director of the Foundation Trust if:

• they are a member of the Members’ Council or, except with the permission of the Trust Board, a governor or director of an NHS body;
• they are the spouse, partner, parent or child of a member of the Trust Board of the Foundation Trust;
• they are a member of a local authority’s Scrutiny Committee covering health matters;
• they are the subject of a disqualification order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986;
• they are a person whose tenure of office as a Chair or as a member or director of an NHS body has been terminated on the grounds that their appointment is not in the interests of the health service, for nonattendance at meetings, or for non-disclosure of a pecuniary interest;
• they have within the preceding two years been dismissed, otherwise than by reason of redundancy, from any paid employment with an NHS body;
• in the case of a Non-Executive Director they have refused without reasonable cause to fulfil any training requirement established by the Trust Board;
• in the case of a Non-Executive Director or Associate Non-Executive Director they are currently employed as a member of staff with the Trust;
• in the case of a Non-Executive Director or Associate Non-Executive Director they are not a member of the Trust;
• they have refused to sign and deliver to the Secretary a statement in the form required by the Trust Board confirming acceptance of the declaration and register of fit and proper persons, interests and independence for Directors.